As a thought experiment, assume you were downloading and printing on low acidic paper (or otherwise storing for the long term) the entire contents of Wikipedia for insurance against some near extinction event. Is there a way to allow future generations to correctly interpret the arbitrary text on a page into meaningful information with only using "the page" as a medium?
(I tried googling the topic, but I'm very lost as to even where I should start. The main question that I'm interested in could be summarized as, "How do we ensure our knowledge as a species/society is not lost in an unintelligible format?")
(I tried googling the topic, but I'm very lost as to even where I should start. The main question that I'm interested in could be summarized as, "How do we ensure our knowledge as a species/society is not lost in an unintelligible format?")